Service Details
Name:
 MOODIE
Given Name:
 JAMES BENJAMIN DUNBAR
Initials:
 J B D
Service No:
 177775V
Rank:
 Lance Corporal
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Regiment:
 South African Engineer Corps
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Unit:
 12 Field Sqn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-11-02
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Date of Birth:
 1911-11-01
Age:
 33
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, while recovering a power shovel from the river to the workshops for overhaul. He detached to the 17 Armoured Division Field Park Squadron at the time. The War Diary gives the date of death as the 3 November
Additional
Information:
Son of James Benjamin Dunbar and Susanna Wilhelmina Johanna Moodie (nee Meyer), of 3 Eeufees Street, Bethal, Transvaal. Born Bethal. An explosives worker on the mines. He was unmarried.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 I, A, 6.

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